Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves living in a precarious state of employment and subsistence conditions. The impact of this reality took hold and impacted the evolution of the social situation of those countries and even though that produced movements that were not exactly political movements but social movements.
Alejandro Castro EspinTo apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia.
Alejandro Castro EspinCuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America].
Alejandro Castro EspinIn Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.
Alejandro Castro EspinCan we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of Lords in England, that still represent the English feudal nobility in terms of positions above regional representatives, who are in the end the representatives supposedly elected by the population. Many mechanisms exist, but they are mechanisms to preserve the power of the wealthy classes, of the bourgeois classes that hold the power and rights above the rest of the society.
Alejandro Castro EspinThe great financial capital is not in one country, it is transnational, that is why it answers to power elites and that is why when I talk about the imperial power of United States I am in no way referring to the American people, who are a noble people that have always been moved by humane concerns.
Alejandro Castro Espin